[Bug 385995] Re: sometimes tries to edit menu.lst even with GRUB 2

2009-08-02 Thread Dragomir Minkovski
The bug is not fixed in Alpha 3 alternate install, but workaround with boot-time option "grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy=false" works. The reason I have it is a second OS on the HDD. -- sometimes tries to edit menu.lst even with GRUB 2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385995 You receiv

[Bug 385995] Re: sometimes tries to edit menu.lst even with GRUB 2

2009-06-17 Thread manishmahabir
I downloaded the daily build on 16thran an update in the live environmentthen installed alongside my vista. There is an entry in the grub menu for vista but on selecting it, it says bootmgr missing. it was allright when jaunty was installed. is there anyway to boot into vista successfully

[Bug 385995] Re: sometimes tries to edit menu.lst even with GRUB 2

2009-06-15 Thread Conn
I tried to perform an install of Karmic Alpha 2 with the desktop i386 CD and suffered from this bug, and using the boot-time option "grub- installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy=false" listed in the release notes did not work, unfortunately. I have a dual-boot configuration with Windows 7 RC on my

[Bug 385995] Re: sometimes tries to edit menu.lst even with GRUB 2

2009-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
vaibhav mishra: Your installation of Vista will be unaffected itself, although GRUB won't be configured to be able to boot it so you may have to reinstall the Vista boot loader. There's an install-time workaround in the Alpha 2 release notes; if this is too complex for you, you can wait until Alpha

[Bug 385995] Re: sometimes tries to edit menu.lst even with GRUB 2

2009-06-12 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package grub-installer - 1.37ubuntu3 --- grub-installer (1.37ubuntu3) karmic; urgency=low * If using GRUB 2, don't try to edit menu.lst to change the timeout (LP: #385995). We need to do something with the GRUB 2 timeout, but this is blocked on sett

[Bug 385995] Re: sometimes tries to edit menu.lst even with GRUB 2

2009-06-11 Thread vaibhav mishra
I have A Vista installed in a drive and I am attemting a install, although I am now going to use Vista for a fair amount of time in near future , I still want to know , is it make Vista not usable(fine - with - me) or also made current 9.10 entry un-bootable -- sometimes tries to edit menu.lst ev

[Bug 385995] Re: sometimes tries to edit menu.lst even with GRUB 2

2009-06-11 Thread Steve Beattie
Yes, that's also the situation that occurred with duplicate bug 386062, the disk image had a previous install of intrepid/kubuntu that was resized. -- sometimes tries to edit menu.lst even with GRUB 2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385995 You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Bug 385995] Re: sometimes tries to edit menu.lst even with GRUB 2

2009-06-11 Thread Charlie Kravetz
That would be correct. I had another install of karmic on a 2nd hard drive. Even though I did tell it to use the entire drive, I did not erase the 2nd drive. -- sometimes tries to edit menu.lst even with GRUB 2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385995 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 385995] Re: sometimes tries to edit menu.lst even with GRUB 2

2009-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
My comment about this happening if you try to use a GRUB password was wrong; grub-installer is careful to only offer this for GRUB Legacy. That leaves (b). -- sometimes tries to edit menu.lst even with GRUB 2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385995 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 385995] Re: sometimes tries to edit menu.lst even with GRUB 2

2009-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
The problem is that our code to show the menu by default and raise the timeout hasn't been adapted to GRUB 2 yet. (Actually GRUB 2 does that by default so we probably need to do the inverse.) -- sometimes tries to edit menu.lst even with GRUB 2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385995 You received